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About the Role
As a Graduate Software Engineer, you will work on mission-critical solutions that enable rapid market reactions. Your work will be the magic behind the scenes, empowering teams to make split-second decisions with precision and confidence. By innovating and optimizing code in an interdisciplinary manner, you will maintain the firm's competitiveness in the evolving capital markets.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with best-in-class traders, researchers, risk analysts and other engineers to develop simple, well-architected solutions that meet business needs.
- Gain and develop in-depth knowledge of engineering for the capital markets.
- Contribute to a culture of collaboration and excellence.
- Tackle tough problems in the financial markets.
Requirements
- Graduating between August 2024 and August 2027.
- Maximum of 3 years of work experience.
- Passionate about clean code, simple, well-architected systems, and continuous improvement.
- Proficient in industry-standard coding languages such as C++, Python, or Java.
- Strong understanding of underlying computer architecture and system operations.
- Solid grasp of algorithms, memory and concurrency models, CPU-architecture, operating systems and relational databases.
- Have an entrepreneurial attitude and an interest in the financial industry.
- An analytical mindset and strong problem-solving skills.
- Able to work closely with other engineers, traders, and business operations.
- Must be able to complete online assessments within 7 days of application selection.
- Not eligible to reapply if an online assessment or interview for a technology graduate or internship role was completed at any Optiver location in the past 8 months.
Skills
- C++
- Python
- Java
- Computer architecture
- System operations
- Algorithms
- Memory models
- Concurrency models
- CPU-architecture
- Operating systems
- Relational databases
- Problem-solving
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Graduate
- Entry-level
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
- PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure
- 27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays
- Daily breakfast and lunch
- Support on commuting expenses
- Private medical insurance
- Pension scheme
- ClassPass fitness membership
- Training and continuous learning opportunities
- International transfer opportunities
- Competitive relocation packages
- Visa sponsorship where necessary for expats
About the Company
- Optiver is building with cutting edge AI technology in the financial markets.
- Optiver fosters a culture of collaboration and excellence.
- Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.
Equal Opportunity
- Optiver encourages applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds.
- Reasonable adjustments are available during the process upon request.
- Requests for reasonable adjustments can be made by contacting the Recruitment team via the contact form, selecting “Reasonable Adjustments” as the subject of your inquiry.